Jul 1, 2009

Random Artwork...

I've been working with Scott Ritchie to create a "branding-ubuntu" package. His blogpost is posted on Planet Ubuntu and so perhaps you've already read that the package is now available in Karmic. Personally I think the new artwork looks much more up-to-date.Three different vector card backs were created before I was satisfied.

While the sun was shining outside, I spent my morning inside working on random artwork. Here are some samples for you to enjoy or post critique on. Although these splash screens are created for the Ubuntu branding package, everything is still in the initial stage and nothing has been decided yet.

It's kind of hard to know what will fit the other elements of the Karmic Koala artwork. So for now, these are my suggestions. (The images should not look this compressed! Blogger is just so annoying)

Although I would really love to be free from the proprietary software I spent my money on, there's just no way to live without Adobe CS suite. Today I spent some time in After Effects and I have to say that despite being a Photoshop wizard, this is something completely different. I’m sure many companies use Adobe products because it’s so simple to create something that looks good. After familiarizing myself with the UI, I created the video below. It took two minutes using a template. Of course the downside is that there will be 500 banners that looks like yours.

jdetras -> this is purely my own personal interpretation and has got nothing to do with the official artwork. I think Mark meant that we should consider alternatives, but I'm sure if nothing better comes along we will stay with brown/orange - at least for now. I know that we've heard it before, but a lot will happen in Karmic+1 regarding the artwork (and theme)